Do you know that dolphins gossip?
Talk about each other behind their dorsal fins?
Like, “You’ll NEVER GUESS who Squeaky Squeak nuzzled last night!! Whoooeee!…”
It’s an old article, and sadly, not nearly enough about the dolphins themselves. A fun little foray into the world of gossip, nonetheless.

Turns out Homo Erectus may have created Civilization 1.0, beating previous estimates by half a million years. Plenty of outraged scientific doubters piling on, as expected.

Mongolian Death Worm

Mongolian Death Worm!!!

Forget bigfoot I want one of these suckers in the great north woods.

er, on second thought, perhaps not.

In response to weird robo-spam, I’ve made it so you must be registered and signed in to comment.

To help ease the pain, I give you the Neitzche Family Circus.

We may not be denizens of the Milky Way after all. Astronomers from the University of Virginia have noted we are actually located where two galaxies, the Milky Way and the Sagittarius Dwarf Ellipitcal Galaxy, intersect. The latter is being torn apart and assimilated by the former. We may well be an aquisition of hostile takeover.

Read more about it here.

See the animation here.

Sorry Allen.

The guy who shot the footage is apparently a nut.

had mysql database issues with the host server, all fixed now, sorry for the interruption.

Check out the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment for all of your Mars photography needs. The photos from the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter can top out at around 1G, so have some hard drive space available.

Isn’t any experiment “science?”

A long but fascinating article about the four sexes, full of fun facts, like, gay men’s hair is more likely to whorl counterclockwise, but str8 men’s hair whorls are more clockwise? Also has some info I already knew, like, 75% of gay men’s voices sound gay when played to a general audience…

The fact that some people are so obviously gay is interesting for two reasons: One, what is innate and what is cultural about what makes people seem gay? And two, isn’t it fascinating that Ted Haggard’s flock had such culural blinders on that they didn’t think this obviously gay man’s obvious gayness would become an issue for their gay-bashing agenda?

Much as I am loathe to link to anything having to do with the execrable Katie Couric (shudder), I found this surprising bit by a different CBS reporter to be an excellent breakdown of the situation.

More exploding planets. This is an animation of Van Flandern’s radical reconstruction of the history of Mars, which involves Mars getting blasted from two planetary explosions.

Please note this theory both dovetails with the expanding earth theory and contradicts it. Because in this video arguing that Mars has expanded, the dude says the smooth craterless parts of Mars are new crust created as the planet expands, and his video makes it look very convincing… Van Flandern would point out however that we are essentially talking about an entire hemisphere of Mars, which indicates it got blasted from one side. Van Flandern has BTW admitted sympathies with the expanding earth models of planetary expansion, so they must not be mutually exclusive … Decisions decisions. Anyway all the videos are fun to watch.

Inspired by the post below, here are heretical astronomer Tom Van Flandern’s “Three Planetary Explosion Mechanisms“. Van Flandern has put together a case that up to six bodies have explodeded in our solar system since it began. This dovetails nicely with the expanding earth theory, in which all planets expand possibly to explode. Van Flandern says, “the principal model presented here is not so much an explanation of how planets can explode as about how they can remain stable for so long without exploding.”

And here they are….

“The corpse turned out to be a guy I used to have breakfast with, and there were maggots in his teeth. “

What’s one foot across and sits behind two inches of skin, four inches of fat and 10 inches of muscle? 

As a child who grew up with out a television, I now have the science to fault my parents for my lack of social skills and hand/eye coordination. Read about it here…

New theory: the action of nerves might work using sound, not tiny electrical signals as commonly supposed.

The main impetus for developing the theory is - get this - nobody can explain how anaesthetics work. Who knew this whole branch of medicine was based on a scientific anomaly?

My favorite quote from the article: “The new theory has not been well received.” Well there’s a surprise. There’s even a grumpy skeptic in the article huffing about how the conventional ‘electrical currents’ theory “has been pretty well vetted.” Yeah, except - it can’t explain how pain-killers work?? Some vetting.

As of June 14th very little exploring has been done. i have observed that it gets very dark here at night, which i believe to be critical. still want to visit with the locals, and get the low down. anyone have any contacts in the northbay area?

As promised, here is the link to an example of NASA (okay, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, same diff) monkeying with photos of Mars to produce the desired effect on the public.

“One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”

Makes you wonder if they contemplated dropping scantily clad women into combat zones, oh wait…

Does Mars look like this…

or this?

There seems to be some evidence that NASA is making the red planet look even redder.  Read more here.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension, part 1.

This, and other videos, can be found on tenthdimension.com.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension, part 2.

Halton Arp on anomalous or ‘peculiar’ galaxies… click on “preface”, this stuff is like poetry, and the pictures too (”Arp 1-4″ etc.)… and they fired this guy for his beliefs, for disagreeing with the calcified mainstream paradigm, hence the ‘heresies’ tag…in Arp’s view galaxies burst like seedpods, ejecting quasars. Arp’s basic method/philosophy should be recognized for its importance, essentially saying, “Studying what we don’t know can trump studying what we know.” In other words, weirdos, freaks and outcasts are important; Arp could very well be talking about people. Here’s Halton Arp in his own words from the preface to the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies:

“Forty years after the discovery that galaxies were independent stellar systems, we still have not penetrated very far into the mystery of how they maintain themselves or what physical forces are responsible for shaping their observed forms. The galaxies are the constituent units of mass and energy in the universe, and yet we are still challenged by such questions as: What causes the characteristic shape of spiral galaxies? How are elliptical galaxies related to spiral? How are galaxies formed, and how do they evolve?

“It is difficult to resist an oversimplified impression of what a galaxy is because (they’re classically divided into) the well-known categories of smooth, amorphous ellipticals and flattened spirals with star-studded arms. But not all galaxies fit the schematic idealization of (this) sequence of nebular forms. In fact, when looked at closely enough, every galaxy is peculiar. Appreciation of these peculiarities is important in order to build a realistic picture of what galaxies are really like.

“But the peculiarities are also important for another reason. If we could analyze a galaxy in the laboratory, we would deform it, shock it, probe it in order to discover its properties. The peculiarities of the galaxies pictured in this Atlas represent perturbations, deformations, and interactions which should enable us to analyze the nature of the real galaxies which we observe and which are too remote to experiment on directly. In general, the more conspicuous the peculiarity, the more illustrative it is of special events and reactions that occur in galaxies. Therefore the greatest deviations from the normal are emphasized in this Atlas. In some cases small peculiarities are included to illustrate, in sequence, how a certain type of peculiarity develops in importance until it dominates the form of the object. But it is from this overall range of experiments that we must then select and study the ones which will give the most insight into the composition and structure of a galaxy and the forces that govern it.”

Link.

I will link to regional Bigfoot reports like these whether I believe them or not. In this case the witnesses themselves don’t seem too sure about what to believe - anyway I love reading Bigfoot sighting reports.

Further reading from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization database by state:

Minnesota.

Wisconsin.

Priapos, can we count on you to post any reports from Texas you come across? And Hood in the Woods, the same from California? Gonzo Blog Team, Assemble!

One from 1944.

One from 1971.

And me without my pith helmet.

Unfortunately it appears the investigators taking point on this are creationists.

Adding: Part of the modus operendi of the creationists is to latch on to scientific anomalies (or tales of them) and use them as ‘evidence’ that science is wrong and creationism is right. But as I replied to an email from a religious whackjob a few years ago, the alternative to “bad science” isn’t “creationism” - it’s “better science”.

So are pterasaurs still alive in New Guinea? I doubt it - but I don’t scorn the cryptozoologists for looking. The truly surreal part is that if they find one, the creationists will bizarrely claim it’s evidence that the Bible is literally true.

Supposedly impossible.

Among the implications: Life.

Also, once they do a test and prove it’s actually water, expect no one who said it was impossible to get fired. More likely they’ll say they knew it all along.

The article is from a couple months ago, and I’m sure you gonzo boyz have seen it, but…curious. A vaprous beehive for space bee grubs?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100643.html 

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/9/105322/6744

Priceless.

comments are now functional, not sexy, but clear and concise

UPDATE: Jim here. Thank you O great webmaster in the sky. I have made it so that comments are open to everyone, but as soon as we start getting spammed with porn links, commenters will have to register first. Thank you~